Broom-holder



(No Model.)

C. P. BALL.

BROOM HOLDER. No. 300,882.` Patented June 24, 1884.

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-NITED STATES CHARLES PERRY BALL, OF ORANGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BROOM-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,832, dated June 24,1884.

Application filed July 17; 1883. (No'model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, OHARLEs PERRY BALL, of Orange, in the county ofFranklin, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Broom- Holders; and I do hereby declare the sameto be described in the following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a frontelevation, and Fig. 3 a side View, of a broom-holder of my improvedkind.

It consists of a bracket, A, provided with ears a a, for securing it toa wall or other matter, and having a broom-handle circular receivingopening, d, extended through it. It also has two prongs, b b, projectingdown from it, besides which there is fastened to one of the ears aspring, c, that goes upward through the opening d, all being arrangedand formed substantially as shown in the said drawings. Each ear has ahole, e, made through it for receiving a screw for fastening it to awall or side of any structure.

All of the said article except the spring and its supporting-rivet is tobe cast or founded in a single piece of metal.

To use the article when it. may be fastened to a wall or side of .a roomor structure, a broom-handle is to be pushed through the opening dupward against the spring and between and against the two prongs,whereby the broom will not only be supported or held from dropping orfalling down or out of the holder, but by the prongs will be preventedfrom swaying or moving laterally therein, particularly while the handlemay be in the act 0f being inserted in or withdrawn fromthe holder, forwhen a person seizes the handle below the holder for the purpose ofextracting thc broom therefrom he generally, while drawing the handledownward, pulls it toward him and between and against the prongs, whichguide it from swaying laterally or against the wall and binding inl thering or on the spring, so as to force the latter: aside or derange it.

I make no claim to a broom-holder made as represented in any of theUnited States Patents Nos. 124,445, 132,089, 281,185, or 187 ,7 97 asnone of them is provided with prongs eX- tending down from the singlering or part having the broom-receiving opening. The prongs as arrangedwith the single ring save the necessity of an auxiliary ring, with thespring arranged between the two rings, as shown in the Patent No.12%445.

I claim- 1. The furcated broom-holder, constructed as described-viz., ofthe bracket having in it the single circular opening d, and also havingthe two ears a a and spring c arranged therewithe-substantiall y as setforth.

2. In the described broom-holder, the bracket having the broom-handlecircular receiving opening and the two prongs arranged therewith, as setforth.` v

CHARLES PERRY BALL.

Witnesses:

ALFRED L. BrLLINGs, EDwiN H. KENDALL.

